Nursing Process and Nursing Care Plans

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Hi everyone...I am a first year student with an assignment to interview some seasoned nurses on the following:

"Explain how you use the nursing process in your job." &

"What purposes do you see for creating individualized nursing care plans?"

Any input from anyone out there is greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Lin

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Specializes in Home Care, Urgent Care, ER, Med Surg.

Probably most every nurse uses the nursing process without even knowing it, every day. I work in home care and I can give you one example from just today. I was seeing a lady for one kind of wound, but she informed me about another one (one that the 1st nurse who saw her didn't observe, unfortunately). So I did an assessment of the wound, developed a plan (assess wound daily, get orders from md), implemented (called md, got a culture, got an appt to see md), evaluate- will be done daily with other dressing change and will await further orders after culture gets back. Everybody needs an individualized cp because everybody is different. I don't believe I've ever seen any 2 people with same diagnosis that have exactly the same nursing needs. Different culture,age, other medical problems, etc. Hope this helps.

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Isearl, your point about us using the Process without really thinking about it is so true, I fully support your concept, regarding individual NCPs, as each person's needs are different

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